It established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

George Bancroft on Calvinism, in History of the United States (1834), Vol. III, Ch. vi.

Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring
A Church without a bishop, a State without a King

Anonymous poem "The Puritans' Mistake", published by Oliver Ditson (1844).

All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, — every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, — all change, — all permanence, — the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, — all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.

"The Power of a State Developed by Mental Culture", an address to the Mercantile Library Association (18 November 1844), published in The Works of Rufus Choate : Memoir, Lectures and Addresses (1862), edited by Samuel Gilman Brown.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Speech at the dedication of the Peabody Institute (29 September 1854).

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag, and keep step to the music of the Union.

Letter to the Maine Whig Committee (1856). Six years earlier, Choate gave a lecture in Providence which was reviewed by Franklin J. Dickman in the Journal of December 14, 1849. Unless Choate used the words "glittering generalities", and Dickman made reference to them, it would seem as if Dickman must have the credit of originating the catchword. Dickman wrote: "We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent". Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).